Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits.

Reputation runs behind the current state of affairs.

Realism absorbs the ideal by adding a few small imperfections. Example: it paints a few specks of mud on the white gown of the Lady in the Garden.

Innovation violates tradition--attacks it in public and steals from it in private.

Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.

The unknowable creates the greatest controversies.

My struggles with myself seldom reach aerobic level.